But those spots are becoming fewer as technology increasingly takes over from the handwork tradition.

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The hope is that it will allow record labels to focus on managing the editorial content and e-commerce elements of band sites with fewer people and technology requirements than are currently used--particularly as it seeks to build more of these sites.

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